Mobilenew24x7 Bureau
With reportedly 261 people fell victim to the disastrous train accident in Odisha’s Balasore railway track, now wisdom in hind sight has started working.
Was it due to some human error or neglect? Now the bigger question is for the Indian Railway ministry at answer, Ex-gratia is the usual answer that ministries escape with.
Was there ‘Kavach’ on the route? Could it have been prevented had there been the “Kavach’on the route and loss of 261 lives could have been saved.
At least 261 people have died and over 900 were injured after the Coromandel Express and the Bengaluru-Howrah Express derailed near Balasore in Odisha.
After the tragedy, there is an argument that the ‘Kavach’ safety system could have prevented it.
It has been ascertained that, there was no Kavach on the ill-fated route and the indigenous system ‘Kavach’, developed by the Indian Railways to prevent train accidents due to driver error or other factors, was not available on the collision route.
According to some reports the Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had personally tested the ‘Kavach’ system in March 2022. “Rear-end collision testing is successful. Kavach automatically stopped the locomotive before 380 m of other locomotive at the front,” Mr Vaishnaw had tweeted.
Kavach is a mighty shield against such accidents which was endogenously developed by the Railways to prevent accidents caused by human error, resulting in signal passing at danger and over-speeding.
Has Rs 22 crore incurred in developing Kavach gone down the drain with the loss of so many lives? The answer may be with the Railway Minister
Can the accident be said as a result of human error?
